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Panoramic view of Kazbegi, Georgia (July 09) In Jul/Aug 09 I went for 3.5 week trip to Georgia, Armenia, Ukraine, and stopover in Istanbul.
Recent trips were Taipei and Mumbai, India in June 09. The visit of east Malaysia, Borneo in Sabah and Sarawak were to explore rainforest and jungle trekking.
- Sep 09 - Labuan.
- Apr 09 - Miri and Mulu National Park and the Pinnacles.
- Feb & Apr 09 - Kuching, visiting Bako NP and Gunung Gading National Park.
- Oct 08 - scuba diving in Sipadan island, Sandakan, and a 3D2N Kinabatangan river safari in Sabah.
- Nov 05 - climbing Mount Kinabalu and visited Kota Kinabalu.
- Dec 08 - Langkawi
In Sep 2008, I visited Bordeaux, Saint Emilion, and Paris.
In May 2008, I made trip to Yemen and Iran. These countries are great and friendly. My trip to Yemen includes few of the UNESCO world heritage sites: Old Sana'a city, Zabid - the walled town, and Shibam (Wadi Hadramawt) which is a 2000-year old city of seven and eight storey tower blocks built ebtirely out of mud and faith. As one of the most traditional muslim countries, people are very friendly and they always asked for photo taken.
In Oct-Nov 07, I spent 4 weeks visiting Boston, Toronto, Florida and I took 7 days Holland Amercia West Carribean cruise - Belize, Gatamela , and Cozumel, Mexico. It was an very enjoyable trip with relaxing experience on the cruise.
My future travelling plans include Central Asia,i.e. XXXXstan, the former USSR states and South America. |
| Imam Mosque, Isfahan, Iran (May 08) |
|  | In Jun 07, I went Paris and Lyon. After that, I met up with VT member Mark in Liverpool and he drove up to Scottish Highlands for 4 days sightseeing and camping. We had good time, including cooking hot meals and English breakfast in the camp site, and had rounds of rounds of beer in local pubs. Mark, thank you for the time. Before and after that trip, I also visited London, Oxford, York, and Edinburgh.
Other trips in 2007 are as follows:
>>Ho Chin Minh City, Vietnam in Apr 07
>>Shanghai, China in May & Aug 07
In 2006, I took several vacations to visit different parts of the world:
> Krabi and Phi Phi Island in Thailand in Dec,
> Australia, including Tasmania, Sydney, Adelaide, Great Ocean Road, and Melbourne in Oct-Nov.
> Egypt in April
> Morocco in March, and
> Sri Lanka in Jan.
So far I have visited six of the seven ancient wonders of the world, namely the Pyramids in Egypt, the Great Wall in China, Borobudur in Indonesia, the Angkor Wat in Cambodia, the Acropolis in Greece, and the Taj Mahal in India. I believe it will take some years to visit the last one, the Babylon's Hanging Garden in Iraq.
Since 1981, I have been to 60+ countries. In the 80s, I travelled extensively in mainland China, Japan, Canada, USA, Mexico, continential Europe and former eastern blocked European countries (including the former Yugoslavia). In the 90s, I made several landmark trips, such as taking trans-siberia railway from China to Moscow, travelling in Tibet and along the Silk Road via the Karakoram highway to Pakistan. Since early 2000, I have already visited 8 Middle Eastern Arab and Islamic countries and Iran (Persian). I also revisited the post Yugoslavia countries - Slovenia and Croatia. |
| Dambulla Cave, Sri Lanka (Feb 2006) |
| | Wine Drinking As a wine drinker, my extensive travelling allows me to try out local wine from different countries, including wines from Lebanon, Morocco, Crotia, and Egypt. Other vineyards that I have visited include Barossa in South Australia, Tamar Valley in Tasmania, and Marborough, New Zealand, Champange-Reims, and Bordeaux and Saint Emilion in France. Happy travelling and drinking! You can see the most recent pics in my travelling pages. As for the trips that I made before 2003, it takes time to digitalise my slides. %f* A 2-week short but compact visit of this beautiful island of Sri Lanka made me realise that there much more this country can offer, from diving to safari, anicent hertiage site to modern tea plantation. |
| Bled Lake, Slovenia (June 2005) |
| | Bled Lake, Slovenia (June 2005) Bled lake is 2km long emerald green lake with a little Bled island and church in the centre and a dramatic castle towering overhead. Trout and carp proliferate in the clear water, which is pleasure for swimming in summer time. The Julian Alps and Mt Truglav (2864m) forms an excellent backdrop of the Bled Castle. See SloveniaIn the same trip, I visited Croatia, Hungary, northern Italy, Nice France and Blackpool and
Liverpool England. |
| | Apemea, Syria (Nov 2004) Despite Syria is declared by US since 1979 as a state sponsor of terrorism, it has the best historical sites and ruins in the Middle East. Last visit was Nov 2004. In the same trip, I visited Jordan , Lebanon and Dubai |
| South Island, New Zealand (Sep 2002) |
| | South Island, New Zealand (Sep 2002) I love snow capped mountains and NZ is one of my top favourites. Last visit to the whole south island of NZ was in 2002. |
| Diving, Hurghada, Egypt (May 06) |
| | Diving Diving under the water can e.nrich your appreciation of marine life. I started diving since 2001. I hold advanced open water diver certification. My diving experience are as follows: > Exploration dive in Great Barrier Reef, Australia (Sep 2001) > Maldives, (Dec 2001) > Pulau Aur, Pulau Timon, and Kota Kinabaru, in Malaysia (2004, 2005, 2006) > Aqaba, the red sea of Jordan (Nov 2004) > Adriatic Sea in Dubrovnik, Croatia (June 2005) > Unawatuna, , Sri Lanka (Feb 2006) > Dahab and Hurghada in Red Sea, Egypt (April-May 2006) > Phi Phi Island, Thailand (Dec 2006) > Cozumel, Mexico (Nov 2007) > Sipadan island (Oct 2008) > Langkawi (Dec 2008) > Miri (May 2009) |
| Ballroom dancing competition |
| | Ballroom Dancing In addition to travelling, I enjoy ballroom and latin dancing and have entered various dance competitions in South East Asia. I have an associate membership with the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing in United Kingdom and am qualified for teaching. At end of May 2005, I finally fulfilled my dream to visit Blackpool, England and witnessed the annual Blackpool Dance Festival. It is an annual event that all ballroom and latin dancers should not miss once in their life time. You can see some of the pictures taken in that festiva Blackpool Dance Festival 2005Let's tango! |
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leonik Sat Oct 31, 2009 06:47 UTC
gamarjobat! good to see you made it to sakartvelo! =) | HORSCHECK Sat Aug 29, 2009 12:27 UTC
Fantastic intro photo here. Georgia is still on my must-visit list. | Dabs Fri Jul 24, 2009 03:36 UTC
Glad they were useful :-) Drop me a note if you have any questions, I haven't finished my Ukraine pages yet, I still have to do Kiev and Yalta... | mili_143 Sat Jun 13, 2009 03:36 UTC
Most welcome to mumbai. If you need any help do let me know. |
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